Twenty years ago this week, the Supreme Court released their landmark decision Lawrence v. Texas, which declared sodomy laws unconstitutional. Professor Wes Phelps of University of Northern Texas joins to discuss the Texas sodomy statute, who is affected, and the decades of efforts before Lawrence to invalidate it.

Read Before Lawrence: The Making of a Queer Social Movement
Listen to Professor Phelps's podcast Queering the Lone Star State!
Professor Phelps's bio / faculty page at UNT and follow him on Twitter @wesleyphelps20

Song Of The Week: I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I)

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